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A Turkish Rosh Hashanah by Etan Basseri

A Turkish Rosh Hashanah by Etan Basseri

Illustrator: Zeynep Özatalay It’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Rafael and his cousins are shopping in the busy Turkish market for the ingredients for their family’s Sephardic celebration. The cousins’ adventures require...

Mil­len­ni­al Jew­ish Stars by Jonathan Branf­man

Mil­len­ni­al Jew­ish Stars by Jonathan Branf­man

Nav­i­gat­ing Racial Anti­semitism, Mas­culin­i­ty, and White Supremacy Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences....

First Lady of Laughs by Grace Kessler Overbeke

First Lady of Laughs by Grace Kessler Overbeke

The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America’s First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the...

The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer

The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer

Two generations of a folk-rock dynasty collide over art, love, longing, and family secrets in this captivating and poignant debut It’s 1996, and alt-rocker Emma Cantor is on tour, with her sights trained on...

Five Sto­ries by Ellen Wein­stein

Five Sto­ries by Ellen Wein­stein

Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City. Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a...

Yr Dead by Sam Sax

Yr Dead by Sam Sax

In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra’s ever loved, every place they’ve felt queer...

Ping-Pong Shab­bat by Ann D. Koff­sky

Ping-Pong Shab­bat by Ann D. Koff­sky

The True Sto­ry of Cham­pi­on Estee Ackerman Illustrator: Abi­gail Rajunov POP POP KERPOW!Eleven-year-old Ping-Pong phenom Estee Ackerman must make a difficult choice. When her championship match is scheduled on the Jewish Sabbath, will she...